Gendercide
By: Noah Berlatsky, book editor
Series: Opposing viewpoints series; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780737770049; 9780737770056
Subjects: Sex preselection; Crimes against; Sex role; Sexism; Social conditions; Genocide; Gender role; Parental preferences for Sex of children; Victims of crimes; Women
Description: This volume explores numerous aspects of gendercide around the world, including the relationship between sex-selection abortion and gendercide, the relationship between gender-related violence and genocide, and those who are the target of gendercide.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: What are common practices of gendercide in developing countries?; title: Sex-selective abortion is leading to unprecedented gendercide in the developing world  -- The Economist; title: Sex selection in the developing world today is neither unprecedented nor gendercide  -- Edgar Dahl; title: China's one-child policy has contributed to the abortion of girls  -- Anu Liisanantti and Karin Beese; title: Abortion of girls is a problem in India  -- Gursharan Singh Kainth; title: Gendercide of girls in China has driven the growth of sex trafficking  -- Susan Tiefenbrun and Christie J. Edwards; title: Worldwide human trafficking is a myth  -- Zbigniew Dumienski -- ch. 2.; title: What are common practices of gendercide in developed countries?; title: British immigrant communities commit gendercide via sex-selective abortion  -- Kishwar Desai; title: Stoking fears that British immigrant communities commit gendercide is only aimed at limiting abortion  -- Jennie Bristow; title: Sex-selective abortion must be banned in the United States to prevent gendercide of girls  -- Keith Fournier; title: Banning sex-selective abortion in the United States will only increase sexism and the gendercide of girls  -- Michelle Goldberg; title: Selective abortions prompt call for later ultrasounds  -- Huffington Post; title: Restricting ultrasound information in Canada is morally wrong and will not prevent gendercide  -- Heather Mallick -- ch. 3.; title: What is the relationship between gender-related violence and genocide?; title: Gendercide is closely related to genocide  -- Heather McRobie; title: Gendercide is genocide  -- Rita Banerji; title: Mass rape of women can be a form of genocide  -- Anthony Marino; title: Rape of men is often unacknowledged during genocide  -- Will Storr; title: Violence against women was an important part of the Holocaust  -- Rochelle Saidel -- ch. 4.; title: Who is the target of gendercide?; title: Islamic culture targets women for gendercide  -- Alexander Christie-Miller; title: Honor killings of Muslim males in the west  -- Daniel Pipes; title: Blood feuds are gendercide against men in the Balkans  -- Adam Jones; title: Women are targeted for violence in war  -- Sandra I. Cheldelin; title: Men are disproportionally targeted for violence and gendercide -- David Benatar.